Posthumous

Describes a child born after the death of its father. Any such legitimate child inherits as if bom before the parent's death, and a will which does not provide for it is regarded as revoked pro tanto.^ See Aiwus, Luctus. POSTLnVUNY. Claiming property after recapture; restitution after recapture. The jus postliminii of the Eoman law. From post, behind, and Hmen, the threshold. A legal fiction, accbrding to which a Roman citizen captured by the enemy was treated as not having been away from home, and all his rights were restored to him. Slaves, ships, mules, horses, and land, on recapture, were also returned to the original owner.*,The right of postliminiutn is that in virtue of which persons and things taken by the enemy are restored to their former state, on coming again into the power of the nation to which they belonged.^